Comment by flurrything

> but sometimes you know invariants about object sizes, alloc patterns and free patterns that allow much more performant allocation.

jemalloc allows you to query these invariants if you don't know them, and to use the information to re-configure the allocator to match them :/

I'm pretty sure most modern allocators allow you to do this as well.

> The simplest case is if you know that you will free everything at once, or nothing at all.

That's pretty much a one liner with jemalloc.